Extreme is a good suggestion though. My gym just introduced "Extreme Fighting" which just means that now I get to punch people.

...underlining does kind of suck as a means of emphasis

I dislike underlining now because of what Che mentioned earlier - I instantly lose track of the context to look up the hyperlink, even if there is none. It happens when I'm reading hard copy as well. That's probably a bad sign.

Oh, has anyone mentioned "smoking gun" yet? I know it's two words, but it seems to be suddenly popping up all over.

When I control all the keyboards in the world, people who put two spaces after full stops will be hit on the head with the automatedrubber mallet attached to their monitor.

I learned to do that when I was taught to type. It's another thing that specifically relates to typewriters and their fixed-width fonts. It helped visually differentiate between a space between words and a space between sentences.

I had to force myself to get out of the habit, and it took a lot of effort, so have some pity on those who have been doing it all their typing lives.

How about anything with the -gate suffix. Not just an '06 thing, but with tiler-gate, speed-gate, painting-gate, email-gate & whatever, its getting ridiculous. FFS, the whole thing is derived from the name of a hotel, it had no significance to the original scandal, and tacking -gate on the end of something politically scandalous to compare it to a political scandal from 30-odd years ago in the USA is just sad.Why not use one of our own historical political scandals? Winebox, tiler-box, speed-box, email-box, gone-by-lunchtime-box...

That's just how html is rendered - unless you specify an html non-breaking space character, it'll condense any run of multiple spaces into a single space. It's to my perpetual dismay, as yet another conscientious pupil of fourth-form typing.

Speaking about geeky discussions and perfectly cromulant words, did you see the latest Simpsons episode where "Intellectual Homer" is killed by "Serious Homer", but not before writing out "Ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny" in his own blood. That's got to be the ultimate in geek humour.

But there are two words I just have to put in a (ahem) word for: calenture and ultracrepidate. They both sound great; there are stories contained within them, and the latter is something I do all the time.